[CHIRPS (v.2)]
fuse:: Artist-in-Residence:
João Vasco Paiva

Proudly Presented by Videotage



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Opening Reception
Date & Time: Jan 9, 2010 (Sat), 5:30pm
Artist Talk: 6:15pm – 6:45pm (During the opening night)

(*The Artist Talk will be conducted in English)

Exhibition
Date: Jan 10 – 26, 2010
Time: 12:00pm – 7:00pm (Daily except Mondays)
Venue: Videotage
Address: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kln, HK
FREE ADMISSION, ALL ARE WELCOME

Entering the year of 2010, Videotage is proud to present Hong Kong-based Portuguese artist João Vasco Paiva as the first selected artist-in-residence of fuse:: residency program 2010. The objective of fuse:: residency program has always been encouraging individuals interested in the field of new media art, be it art & technology, art & science or art & anything, to create new works. With the support from Videotage, João Vasco Paiva will bring the audience a new sculptural sound installation Chirps, through which he creates a score by determining rules.

The prototype of the work (v1) was presented in the Microwave International New Media Art Festival 2009 in which a set of toy birds performed a sequence of calls and movement interfered by the passers-by at the lobby of Langham Hotel, while this time, Vasco has made the toy birds migrate to the raw space of Videotage where they would react to the motion and sound of a new player - a real mynah bird.

This autonomous species, with its amazing imitative abilities, will respond to the sounds and motion of the 120 plastic birds while the electronic songbirds inherit their own kind of copying ability and react to the environment accordingly. The duo combination is a blown-up orchestra inviting visitors to observe both the psychology and intelligence of the natural-born and the computational singers. Together they become a feedback loop system, a true cybernetic nature.

You are now cordially invited to the opening reception of the exhibition on January 9, 2010 (Sat) to experience the (un)conscious composition produced together by the beautiful mynah bird and 120 toy birds. On the opening night, the artist will share his creative process and concepts that became the pillars of Chirps. He will also talk about how the ideas of mapping, generative art and automata merge together with his own experience of Hong Kong and lead to his work


Words from Artist

“Every toy bird is built with an audio sample and movements that resemble the real birds, a cheap attempt to emulate the real ones. The mechanical bird is therefore the perfect object to create an artificial output based on the natural conditions of the environment. The sound and motion of the mynah bird will be used as the value that calibrates the amount of voltage sent to control the movement of the bird toys and the playback of the samples. With amazing imitative abilities, the mynah bird will respond to the sounds and motion of the plastic birds. This process will create a feedback loop, the circuit direction will be from the reading of the mynah bird’s behavior to the interference of the work itself with the environment. The orchestra will be divided into several groups and each group will have its own interpretation of the given data. The overall musicality from the bird toys together with the myna bird will be the final product of the piece.”

-- João Vasco Paiva


Artist Talk

The artist will share his creative process and the concepts, his doubts and the further developments of ‘Chirps’. He will talk about mapping, generative art and automata merge together with his own experience in Hong Kong.

Can we define a determinate culture through the visual and sonic elements that constitute its basis? The artist relates his experience towards a new culture became a core part of the creative process in his artwork. He will look into art history about representation and the study of patterns, and address a new daily life experience in Hong Kong, an ethnographical approach outside the social and cultural connotations that it holds. It is not only aiming to encourage the appreciation of everyday experience in Hong Kong, but also to initiate a discussion on data manipulation in digital and analog media.


About the Artist

João Vasco Paiva is a Portuguese artist currently living in Hong Kong. His work is based on the exploration of sound and visuals produced through the isolation of physical patterns. He uses digital and analog systems to depict scores in everyday life situations and rearrange them as sound and visual compositions. He presents his work as live performances, single channel videos and audio visual installations.

He graduated from a Fine Arts Degree in Porto Art School. (E.S.A.P.) In 2006 he was awarded with a 2 years scholarship from Fundaçao Oriente, a Portuguese Foundation that supports young artists in Asia. He obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, where he currently teaches.

His work has been showed in festivals such as ‘FILE Hypersonica International Festival of Electronic Language’, ‘London Exploratory Music Festival’, ‘Athens Video Art Festival’, ‘CityTransit’, ‘2pi Festival’, ‘Hong Kong and Shenzen Architecture and Urbanism Biennial’ and other venues and locations in Beijing Hong Kong, London, Porto, Hangzhou, Sao Paulo and Vienna.

錄映太奇呈獻
藝術家駐場計劃

展覽開幕
日期及時間：2010年1月9日(星期六)，下午5時半
藝術家講座：下午6時15分至6時45分
（＊藝術家將以英語講解）

展覽
日期：2010年1月10日至26日
時間：正午12時至7時正（逢星期一休息）
場地：錄映太奇
地址：九龍土瓜灣馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村13室
藝術家：João Vasco Paiva
免費入場


踏入2010年，錄映太奇誠意邀請葡萄牙籍藝術家João Vasco Paiva為fuse::藝術家駐場計劃創作全新聲音藝術裝置《鳥鳴》，作為頭炮展覽項目。fuse::藝術家駐場計劃向來鼓勵及推動新媒體藝術的發展，創作形式包括結合藝術與科技；藝術與科學等不同的範疇。藝術家João Vasco Paiva在錄映太奇的支持下，以三個多月時間完成此別樹一格的聲音藝術裝置。

是次展覽為《鳥鳴》的第二部分。作品的原型曾於「微波國際新媒體藝術節2009—實驗新場」內展出，藝術家嘗試透過作品探索一群玩具鳥如何因受到人流動向的影響，而以物理形式操控其播放頻率和動作。這群共一百二十隻的玩具雀鳥將會遷徙到錄映太奇作第二部分的試驗，而這次他們的動作和「叫聲」將與活生生的「了哥」互動，以各自的模仿能力，將兩者共處之物理作用構成反饋循環系統(feedback loop system)，令整個裝置成為真正的制動自然(cybernetic nature)。

透過連串聲音和電子編碼的交錯，藝術家João Vasco Paiva探索人工與天然物之間的交流，並以建立規則的方法，令機械鳥與真「了哥」共同創作一首獨特的樂章。

我們現誠邀閣下蒞臨於2010年1月9日(星期六)的展覽開幕禮，來體驗活潑的了哥與120隻玩具鳥的聲音演出。開幕當晚，藝術家將現場分享作品的創作過程，解構測繪(mapping)、生成藝術(generative art)及自動操作(automata)等概念如何與其自身對香港此地之感受融合並成為作品的重要元素。

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作品介紹

「玩具鳥以了哥作為藍本，建立了一套模仿真實雀鳥的式樣。了哥的音頻和動作能調校操控玩具鳥的電壓, 影響其播放頻率和動作。而了哥則以驚人的模仿能力，回應玩具鳥的動作和的聲音，從而建立一套巡環的過程，而玩具鳥電路的方向則受到了哥和本身環境的干預。玩具雀鳥樂團分成不同的小組，每組將有不同的解釋數據方法，從而產生如交響樂般不同層次的聲律效果。」

﹣藝術家João Vasco Paiva


藝術家講座

藝術家將分享其展覽作品的創作過程和理念，和作品下一步的發展方向。藝術家更會談及測繪(mapping)，生成藝術(generative art)，自動操作(automata merge)和他在香港定居創作的自身體驗。

我們是否可以通過視覺和聲音元素的構成，去界定文化的本身和基礎？藝術家的創作過程大都回應他於另一種文化中的體驗。他將會分享藝術史中規律的表達模式，並融會在香港的生活體驗中，及探討音律和視覺元素和社會文化的關係。藝術家在鼓勵細味香港日常生活點滴的同時，亦希望帶動關於數據操作和電子模擬媒體的討論。


藝術家簡介

João Vasco Paiva來自葡萄牙，目前定居於香港。其作品探討通過物質隔離的模式而產生的聲音和視覺效果，並利用數碼和模擬系統描繪日常生活，重新安排成為視覺作品。他的創作過程涉及觀察及干預電腦編譯過程，作品均以現場表演，錄像和視覺形式呈現。

藝術家畢業於葡萄牙藝術學校(E.S.A.P.)並取得美術學士學位，後於香港城市大學創意媒體學院獲得創意媒體美術碩士，目前亦於同校任教。他的作品於世界各地的藝術節展出和作現場表演。

Artist's Link

João Vasco Paiva:
http://joaovascopaiva.com/

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